Thanh Hoa marks anniversary of President Ho’s visit

President Truong Tan Sang on Feb 20 attended a ceremony marking the day
President Ho visited Thanh Hoa province 65 years ago and launched the
emulation campaign on building new-styled rural areas.

In the early days of the anti-French resistance war, President Ho Chi
Minh visited the central province of Thanh Hoa, which was then an
important base of the revolution. In his meeting with local officials,
intellectuals and representatives from the public, the president
stressed the importance of the province in the country’s development
history.

“Thanh Hoa province has time-honoured
cultural traditions and is one of the places where many national heroes
and talented people were born,” he said, adding that Thanh Hoa should
strive to become a model province in all political, economic and
military aspects.

Speaking at the ceremony,
President Sang said Thanh Hoa has great advantages in terms of
geographical location, natural resources and human resource. He called
on the Party Committee and people of Thanh Hoa province to hold up their
heroic traditions and make use of potential to build their homeland
into a model province, in line with the teaching by Uncle Ho.-VNA